This is a guide to resources in education in the Greenfield Library and Music Library at the University of the Arts. If you have questions about this topic please see the librarian's e-mail address at the end of this document.
If you're interested in education, you may also be interested in our subject guides on Art Education, Dance, Museum Studies, and Music Education.
Reference materials || Searching the Catalog by Subject || Periodical Indexes || Style Manuals || Web Sites
The first place to look when beginning research on a topic is in reference material: specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias or handbooks. These allow you to check names, dates and places, find additional information, look up unknown terms, and check for the proper spelling of words. They are particularly helpful for finding basic background information on a topic, and are often the only place many students may need to look to find answers to their questions. They may include bibliographies (lists of additional materials on a topic, usually considered by the author to be the best materials on that topic) that you can use to find other materials.
Call numbers are for the Greenfield Library unless otherwise indicated.
Use the University Libraries catalog to find books, videos, CDs, scores, journal titles, etc. To locate all of the materials the library holds on a topic, it is most efficient to search by Subject. Use the following subject headings in the online catalog. Be careful to follow the exact spelling and form. These subject headings are standard and are used in most libraries.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY
CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
CREATIVE ABILITY
CURRICULUM PLANNING
EDUCATION
EDUCATION--BIBLIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION--CURRICULA
EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY--CURRICULA
EDUCATION--DICTIONARIES
EDUCATION--ENCYCLOPEDIAS
EDUCATION, HIGHER
EDUCATION--HISTORY
EDUCATION--PHILOSOPHY
EDUCATION, SECONDARY--CURRICULA
EDUCATION--UNITED STATES
EDUCATION--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATORS
GIFTED CHILDREN--EDUCATION
LEARNING, PSYCHOLOGY OF
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
PROBLEM CHILDREN--EDUCATION
Magazine and journal articles will always be the best place to look for current information on your topic. Periodical indexes are research tools that allow you to search for articles in journals and magazines.
Access to the Periodical Indexes and Databases
Go to the library's Research Tools and Resources page for descriptions of Web-based periodical index subscriptions (you must be on the UArts campus network to use these). You can also link directly from the URLs below.
I've Found Articles I Want to Find. Now What?
There are different ways to find an article once you pull up a citation in the index:
When you find information on a topic, no matter what format it takes (book, journal, Web page), there are style manuals to show you the correct way to give cite those sources in a paper.
Searching the Web can be overwhelming. If you are using the Internet for research you want to choose sites that meet the standards of accuracy, currency and authority.
Below are just a few education Web sites that may be of interest to the UArts community.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
A good place to start any research on the Web. Use the menus or type in a search such as "music education". The quotation marks specify a phrase.
National Art Education Association
http://www.naea-reston.org/
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
http://www.menc.org/
National Dance Association
http://www.aahperd.org/nda/
One of six national associations within the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
National Education Association
http://www.nea.org/index.html
National Center for Education Statistics
"This is arguably the single best Web source for readily accessible data on schooling at all levels. It includes online versions of major print data sources, such as the Digest of Education Statistics, The Condition of Education, and Projections of Education Statistics, among others. Beyond that, there are tables of quick facts, as well as links to recent reports on major issues like school crime or the status of the education of African Americans. One can also find data from the Nation's Report Card, otherwise known as the NAEP (National Association of Educational Progress), as well as the School District Demographic page (http://nces.edu.gov/surveys/sdds/), which integrates school district and demographic data drawn from the Census and other sources. There is a wealth of data at this site that is potentially relevant to educational sociologists." Source: Stephen H. Aby's' review in American Reference Books Annual, 2005, entry 279. Greenfield REF 011.02 Am35
http://www.nces.ed.gov/
WSSLinks: Women, Girls, and Education
Maintained by Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System, for the Association of College & Research Libraries' Women's Studies Section. "This University of Wisconsin site, actually a metasite, can connect researchers to hundreds of other women-related Websites through its collection of fully annotated hyperlinks covering topics like curriculum, pedagogy, research, funding, issues, periodicals, and discussion lists." Quote taken from Linda D. Tietjen's' review in American Reference Books Annual, 2005, entry 273. Greenfield REF 011.02 Am35
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/womened.htm
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Last updated 29 August 2007 sjm
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